“IS STRATZPIND TRANSTTIOUAL MaNleFORAIHM DEMISE
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then on outmustered defense ie confronted with the probes of potently
defending the tasket against scoring thrusts, the stratified trensition] prin-
Siple of both tho mn forsnon and the zone defenses ic indicated.
| : “The certain specific situations which need this principle of defense

follow: (2) chen ono defensive man ie confronted with tw offensive formardss

(2) when te defensive guards ere opposed by three offensive formriss (3) when
threo defensive men are attacked by either four or five offensive nens (4) when
five defensive mm are confronted with five offensive opponentte

then © defenge is not outmmbered by on offense, then the defense should
be the strongore Any outembered defensive grou rust expect the offense to shoot.
But an effestive defonse must try to conserve its forces near the basket, by using
the primsiple of the economy of defenses : :

At the cone time, as far as is consistent with sane tactics, a defense
nust menecingly project its tentacles formand and cute the defense must of necessity
play thenan who has the tall ready for a shot at the lasket, yt, on accomt of
_ the mmber of offensive players against it, the defense will be forced to use the
|" principle of the sone defenses, Tiencs, a defense struggling to tendle such situations
will play a ctratm of the minforenn ond a stratum of the sonee In other words,
as emergencies arise there is a transition from ome type of defense to the other.
Therefore, we arrive at tho complex title, “stratified ‘rensition) fan<fortion

Defense with tho Zone Principle," for a simple trensition fron a stmmtun of a corm
tain type of defense to a statin of another type of defenoe. 2

| ‘Tho camun concoption of tenor: is that St applies only to the offence,
but, in reality, it operntes at its best on the defense. This misconception can be

attributed to the fact that, in the early development of the game, the players in